Overshoe



SJC. BE'LKNAP & T. H. PYB.

oVERsHoB.

(N0 Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

SAMUEL O. BELKNAP AND THEODORE H. FYE, OF ZANESVILLE, OHIO.

OVERSHOE.

SPECIFICATION' forming part of Letters Patent No. 313,161, dated March3,1885.

Application filed July 23, 1883. (No model.)

' following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvent-ion, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

Ourinvention relates to an improvement in rubber overshoes, the objectbeing to provide this class of goods with icecreepers, and to providefor the removal of the same when not needed.

Vith this object in view our invention consists in the combination, witha rubber overshoe, of a removable ice-creeper consisting of a metallicplate provided with points arranged to project through the sole or heelof the shoe.

ln the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view ot' asandal embodying our invention. Fig. 2 is areverse plan view thereof.Fig. 3 is a view of the sandal in vertical transverse section. Fig. 4 isa detached view of one form which the creeper may assume, and Fig. 5 isa detached view of a dummy.

In the drawings our invention is shown as applied to a sandal orfoot-hold, A; but it is apparent that it is applicable to all styles ofovershoes.

The ice-Creeper consists of a metallicv plate, B, having points Odepending from its lower face. These points may vary in number and inposition, and they may be attached to or made integral with the plate,as found most desirable. The plate itself may assume va rions forms, asfancy and convenience may dictate. The points are arranged to projectthrough holes D, formed either in the heel or sole ofthe shoe, or both.

The dummy is employed to ll the holes D when there is no occasion forthe use of the Creeper. It consists of a plate, E, of molded .rubber ormetal, provided with projections F,

adapted to till and close the holes D without projecting through them.If desired, the plate may be provided with teeth instead ot' points,Jand the dummies made accordingly.

llhe shoe requires no especial adaptation to fit it for our improvedice-Creeper, and it. receives the minimum of injury therefrom.

The Creeper and dummy are easily eX- changed each for each, and they donot discommode the wearer ofthe shoe. l

In Letters Patent No. 278.308, granted tous May 29, 1883, the inventionconsists ot a halt'- sole and devices for removably securing thehalf-sole to the shoe. Between the haltsole and the sole of the shoe isplaced an ice-creeper. XVe would therefore have it understood that wemake no claim in this patent broad enough to cover the invention shownand described in our patent as above recited.

The improvement herein described is much simpler and cheaper in itsconstruction than that described in our patent.

Instead ot' employing a half-sole with devices for securing it to theshoe, we use an ordinary overshoe or sandal and attach the icecreeperthereto.

Having thus fully described our invention, what We claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with a rubber overshoe, of a removable ice-Creeperconsisting` of a plate provided with depending points arranged toproject through holes formed in the sole-or heel ot' the shoe,substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof we have signed this specification in the presenceof two subscribing witnesses.

SAMUEL C. BELKNAP. THEODORE H. FYE.

Witnesses:

JACOB C. FRANcIs, GEO. L. PHILLirs.

